US backline has Krieger starting and presumably Beuhler back on the left, with LePeilbet and Rampone as the central pairing.
Nice to see ESPN committing both a three person studio (Ley, Dicicco, Scurry) and a two person, on location PBP/color (Darke, Foudy) team to the game.
England: #1 Karen Bardsley #2 Alex(andra) Scott, #3 Rachel Unitt, #5(c) Faye White, #6 Casey Stoney #8 Jill Scott, #10 Kelly Smith, #4 Fara Williams #7 Jess Clarke, #9 Ellen White, #11 Rachel Yankey USA: #8 Amy Rodriguez, #20 Abby Wambach #15 Megan Rapinoe, #10 Carli Lloyd, #7 Shannon Boxx, #9 Heather O'Reilly #6 Amy LePeilbet, #19 Rachel Buehler, #3(c) Christie Rampone, #11 Ali Krieger #18 Nicole Barnhart
Anthems. England are respectful. Several Yank groups with flags. 00' 0-0 England kicks off, probes up the right to the corner. 01' 0-0 England passes from 40m to 25m arc left, heel back-flick through box top center springs #10 Kelly Smith into a foot race -- Barnhart charges way out and wins it by 0.5m as Smith sprawls over her.
Les Cut. Just in time for the summer. I wonder how it looks dry. Maybe she got the Rapinoe/Bieber. I also see that they are not wearing the new kits.
04' 0-0 USA are pinned in our own half. England left corner, #11 Rachel Yankey drives it low left post, England miss a diving header flick try, ball skips untouched to #7 Jess Clark(?) at 0.9m center, who tries a right-instep hacky-sack backflick, but pops it over the crossbar.
Now they have 3 Biebers. Someone said that the new jerseys wouldn't be worn until their next match anyway.
08' 1-0 England through-ball beats USA's back line up box left, footrace to endline. Krieger face-plants, ball trickles into a 50-50 at 6-left foot -- cleared sky-high, 20m+. Drops and bounces inside the 6, #6 Amy LePeilbet is well boxed out by somebody posting up, her over-the-back leaping header misses. Ball bounces again, out to #7 Jess Clarke waiting patiently at 8m left post, plays it off the bounce and drives it low left, between Barnhart and the post.